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Text can be formatted in the Starcraft engine to a certain extent.
By placing control characters in front of text, you can modify the way the text is displayed.
Below is a listing of those characters, hex values, and their attributes.

In-Game Formatting

These are the control characters for briefings and in-game.

Code

Text colors as shown in the Scmdraft 2 string editor.

Menu Formatting

These control characters are for the pregame lobby. (Note for Mac users, all the characters that say "Black" are actually the most colorful texts!)
Note: Due to patch 1.14, if the Align characters ? which were used to create the text overlap effect ? are used in the Map Title, they will make that map unjoinable by other players on battle.net. Players attempting to join the game will receive an error message.
Also as of 1.14, all control codes are non-functional in force titles.

Code

Map Editors

X-tra edit, StarForge, and Scmdraft2 support the use of control characters in text.
In X-tra, the characters appear next to some text windows and can be copied in manually.
StarForge has buttons that can be used to insert the characters.
Scmdraft2 shows the characters as their hex values inside <>, such as <0E> for blue. The list of colors appears next to some text windows.

Programs

There have been a few programs out there that either preview the color for you, or when you click on the color, it saves it to your clip board for easy placement.


PColor - FaRTy1billion

You choose the unit. You choose the terrain. You choose the color. You watch as you see the respective units color, on the selected terrain. (colors from 1-255)



Colors 1.14 - *Unknown*

You click the desired color and then paste it into your map editor. (Scmdraft 2 / StarForge)